In Memoriam: David Roper, Sandals’ Director, Industry Relations

Sandals Resorts International (SRI) has shared this 7 days the passing of David Roper, one particular of the longest serving associates of the organization’s leadership group. Roper died Saturday night following a long illness, the firm explained.  

According to SRI executive chairman Adam Stewart, with 5 a long time of Caribbean tourism encounter by now underneath his belt when he joined Sandals Resorts in 1986 as standard supervisor of Sandals Royal Caribbean, Roper rapidly built himself “indispensable, practically synonymous with the brand name and beloved by colleagues, staff members and vacation advisors worldwide.”

Immediately after signing up for the enterprise as a common manager, Roper was questioned afterwards that exact 12 months to carry his abilities to the SRI leadership workforce the place he was tasked with managing the company’s romance with the higher journey market. He played an integral function in building out and strengthening SRI’s product sales and field relations division, forging interactions with not only regional field companions and stakeholders but also with critical worldwide companions throughout the globe. 

“I do not try to remember a time when I did not know and like David Roper. He was a entertaining and pure force for fantastic,” Stewart explained in a press assertion. “While he had an encyclopedic memory of the record of the business, David was under no circumstances confined to its past and was one particular of the most innovative and able leaders. But it was with journey advisors that he actually shined. To take him on the highway was to be in the existence of a rock star who was the vitality connecting brokers, the resorts and the model.”  

Roper is survived by his spouse Donna, their little ones and strike brother Brian Roper, basic manager of Shorelines Ocho Rios.

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